City College Salutes First MPA Graduates

Fourteen students, some already in public service, are the first recipients of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) new Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA), designed to inspire and prepare City College students for leadership positions in public service.

Helen Levin, BArch ’10, Receives AIA Fontainebleau Prize

Helen Levin, a graduating fifth-year architecture student in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been awarded the AIA Fontainebleau Prize. The prize provides a full scholarship to the summer program for architects at the Fontainebleau Schools held in Chateau Fontainebleau, south of Paris. A second graduating fifth-year architecture student at CCNY, Shengyi Pu, won a partial scholarship to attend Fontainebleau.

CCNY Art Professor Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Hajoe Moderegger, associate professor of electronic design & multimedia in The City College of New York (CCNY) art department, has been named a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. He will share the fellowship with his artist wife, Franziska Lamprecht, with whom he collaborates under the name “eteam.”

CUNY DSI Produces Special Edition of Prestigious Journal

At the invitation of the Instituto Franklin of the University of Alcalá, Spain, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) will produce a special issue of its prestigious journal, “Camino Real,” devoted to multidisciplinary monographs on Dominicans in the United States. CUNY DSI Director Dr. Ramona Hernández and Associate Director Anthony Stevens-Acevedo will edit the edition and conduct a national call for papers.

Professor Alfano Briefs Navy on Ultrafast Light Propagation

Dr. Robert R. Alfano, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), will address a gathering of U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. Navy) researchers and officials meeting Wednesday, May 26, at Lockheed-Martin offices in Garden City, NY. He will discuss the potential application of his work in ultrafast propagation of light through dielectric media and seeing through scattering and absorption walls to improve underwater navigation systems for the U.S. Navy Trident–class submarine program.

PhD Student Feng Miao Wins Intelligent Transportation Award

Feng Miao, a PhD candidate in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), has won the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York’s (ITS-NY) 2010 Student Award. She will attend ITS-NY’s 17th Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition, June 10-11, in Saratoga Springs, to receive her award.

CCNY Senior Maurice Selby Awarded 2010 Salk Scholarship

Maurice Selby, a senior at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been awarded the 2010 Jonas E. Salk Scholarship to study medicine. He is among eight CUNY students to receive the prestigious scholarship, which was presented in a ceremony May 12 at Baruch College.

CCNY Film Professor’s Documentary to Debut on PBS May 24

From 1866 to 1955, the Bordentown School in Bordentown, NJ, was an educational utopia for African-Americans, who were largely disenfranchised by the American education system. Known as “The Tuskegee of the North,” the school was an incubator of black pride and intellect where generations of children learned values, discipline and life skills.

CCNY’S 164th Commencement Set for May 28

Dr. Leon M. Lederman, a 1943 graduate of The City College of New York (CCNY) and one of its nine Nobel Laureates, will be the guest speaker at the College’s 164th Commencement Exercises, 10 a.m. Friday, May 28, on the College campus.

Emmy-Winning CCNY Student Film Picked as Oscar Finalist

For her thesis project, Maria Royo, ’09 MFA, a graduate film student who attended The City College of New York (CCNY) on a Fulbright Scholarship, turned the camera on her family. The resulting film, “Rediscovering Pape,” won for Best Documentary at the 31st College Television Awards and is a finalist for a student Oscar.

CCNY Professor Brings Conservation Biology to Secondary Schools

As a middle school science teacher at Hunter High School, Yael Wyner wanted to integrate conservation biology, which is typically taught in college, into the environmental science curriculum. One of the drawbacks, she discovered, was that “students learned about ecology and human impact separately and couldn’t connect the two.”